New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader 2nd edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is author of "Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics" (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2006) and "Programmed Visions: Software and Memory" (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2011). Anna Watkins Fisher is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. Thomas W. Keenan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Human Rights Program at Bard College. Review Quotes:"With this revision, editors Wendy Chun and Anna Watkins Fisher have made a major resource that much more indispensable. Ranging from media archaeology to critical discourses of race, class and technology, to close readings of net porn, this collection balances not only the old and the new, but also the specifics of media materiality and globally-conscious theoretical inquiry." Peter Lunenfeld, Department of Design Media Arts, UCLA "The new edition of "New Media, Old Media" not only expands but intensifies the bold enterprise of media history. Global in its reach, and dealing with political economy and postcolonialism, physics and environmental critique, law and war, citizen journalism and queer theory among many other topics, "New Media, Old Media" overturns simplistic notions of continual progress, rewriting the very concept of historical process, and making clear that media in all their variety are the very material of history. A crucial handbook for all students of media, of history, and of the challenges we will face in the future." Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London"

Contributor Bio:  Keenan, Thomas Tom Keenan is Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand